An earthquake struck the Jordan Rift Valley on December 5, AD 1033 and caused extreme devastation in the Levant region. It was part of a sequence of four strong earthquakes in the region between 1033
Shear fractures and column failures at Hisham's Palace, Jericho, photographed in the 1930s
View of the Jordan Valley, where the earthquake occurred.
Hisham's Palace
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Hisham's Palace, also known as Khirbat al-Mafjar, is an important early Islamic archaeological site in the city of Jericho, in the West Bank in Palestine. Built by the Umayyad dynasty in the first hal
1033 Jordan Valley earthquake
…Wooden beams and mosaics were added to the al-Aqsa Mosque. Solomon's Stables and al-Aqsa Mosque were among the structures that underwent restoration. Hisham's Palace in Jericho was destroyed; it was previously thought that the palace was destroyed during the AD 749 earthquake, but the relatively low intensity (VII…
The entrance to the palace in 2017
Archaeologists Hamdan Taha and Donald Whitcomb described the "Tree of Life" mosaic in the bath house as "the most famous of Umayyad mosaics".
Baramki (centre, seated) with excavators at Hisham's Palace in 1937
The palace under excavation in the 1930s